I noticed that Dust Tactics has been rising steadily in ranking in BGG. When I first took notice of DT, its rank was 11xx. Now it's 1094. Though the number of people rating it is still very few, but at least that is also increasing. Well done, Dust Tactics!

That's good news indeed. Not that bad for a year old game.

-Jeff

Interesting..... in a matter of 4 days, Dust Tactics has risen in BGG rank from 1094 to 1048. It may hit the three figure rank next month. Keep it up, DT!

I can;t help but think Kris' comments about the site have gotten a few of us, perhaps lurkers as well, to head over there and rate the site.

i would attribute it more to the game finally making it to new gamers in out of the way places like brazil , where players have to wait a few months for an item to ship to them .

i have noticed more posts form players outside the US , and since BGG is a more international collection of players , and the site has more content on it than this one , it is more likly to draw new players into the game than the generic bland adverts FFG has put out .

its also why BGG has thousands of active participants visiting every day to comment , add content , upload pics , etc .......

Also, I'm new to the Forum and haven't read all the posts, so I've missed in interesting recurring thread about Tournment points values. I just found them today, suddenly a lot of the troop choices seem to make more sense. Why would I ever take Recon Boys over Gunners or not take all Laser Grenadier squads (I know there are reasons, but I'm being the minmax meta gamer for this example). The tournement points values answer that.

The point of bringing this up is the additional threads about when this game will be made into a tabletop game as opposed to a boardgame. When it starts being treated like a mini's game, and sold to that gamer group, we can expect its popularity to soar, and I think that the official tournement points values are a great start. Until today, I thought of it as a board game with balancing issues stemming from poor granularity in points values. Now I have this sudden rush of gaming excitement at the rules that make building a force technical.

perhaps if more people knew that it had this option, more gamers would dive in, I know its a selling point now, for friends who might be thinking of joining in.

Anyone who DOESN'T know about the tourney points values reading this, look them up, perhaps someone can repost them here.

well , as some one who comes from a minis table top game back ground of over 20 years of gaming in dozens of different table top mini games , i am still among the many who prefer the basic points and refuse to use the tourny points .

and the number of people who report using the tourny points system , or even play in the tournies , is only a small minority of the total number of people who have bought the game .

and if that was the real stumbling block , there wouldnt be so many posts on so many places by table top gamers culling their time in traditional games like WH40K , and warmachine , to play this uinstead .

so thats not whats really stopping this game from hitting the minsi gamer market . the onlything keeping it in the "board game " genre is the way FFG is promoting it .

it never really was a board game , but because its called that , and FFG promotes it like one , thats what people think it is .

perfect example , battle tech , is technicaly just as much a "board game " as DT , but i have never heard it called a board game in 20 years since i first played it . i have heard it called a minis game , war game , table top miniatures game , but never a board game .

and when ever i have seen it on a shelf in a game store , i ts never grouped with the board games , its always with the minis games . and thats because from the time fasa , on up through who ever actually owns it or lic. it now , has never refered to it or marketed it like a board game . i dont see "board gamers" playing it , but i do know alot of table top wargamers who play it .

and as far as points go , back when i first played it 20 years ago , we used tonnage to build forces , not battle values , and even now many purists still do the same , and the game was a hit all those years ago , even more so than it is now . had FASA not gone belly up as they did , battle tech never would have been bought up by wizkids and turned into mechwarrior dark age and the joke it became under their control .

so its not about points , its not about boards , its not about a grid , its about how FFG treats the game , its that simple .

and i still contend that recon is the best infantry in the game .